defrag will not run HELP PLEASE

hey there

my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes for
my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..

i am running vista home premium

can anyone please help me....

You wouldn't normally see anything, the defrag routine has no graphical
interface. It is designed to run as a low priority process in the
background.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F83E1F70-2DD9-49D0-86CE-18D7BFB61112@microsoft.com...
> hey there
>
> my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes for
> my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..
>
> i am running vista home premium
>
> can anyone please help me....

I know that, but that is not the problem

The problem is that when i try to open defrag it will not start up so i can
run it

Speedy74

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> You wouldn't normally see anything, the defrag routine has no graphical
> interface. It is designed to run as a low priority process in the
> background.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F83E1F70-2DD9-49D0-86CE-18D7BFB61112@microsoft.com...
> > hey there
> >
> > my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes for
> > my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..
> >
> > i am running vista home premium
> >
> > can anyone please help me....
>
>

Hi,

Are you sure it's not already running? Check via task manager. If there are
multiple instances of it, this may interfere as well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:027A09C9-95F9-44E7-B75F-83B305BE04EF@microsoft.com...
>I know that, but that is not the problem
>
> The problem is that when i try to open defrag it will not start up so i
> can
> run it
>
> Speedy74
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> You wouldn't normally see anything, the defrag routine has no graphical
>> interface. It is designed to run as a low priority process in the
>> background.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F83E1F70-2DD9-49D0-86CE-18D7BFB61112@microsoft.com...
>> > hey there
>> >
>> > my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes
>> > for
>> > my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..
>> >
>> > i am running vista home premium
>> >
>> > can anyone please help me....
>>
>>

It is not running in task manager. and i have just deleted windows, formated
the harddriv and re-installed windows, and it still woun't run....

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are you sure it's not already running? Check via task manager. If there are
> multiple instances of it, this may interfere as well.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:027A09C9-95F9-44E7-B75F-83B305BE04EF@microsoft.com...
> >I know that, but that is not the problem
> >
> > The problem is that when i try to open defrag it will not start up so i
> > can
> > run it
> >
> > Speedy74
> >
> > "Rick Rogers" wrote:
> >
> >> You wouldn't normally see anything, the defrag routine has no graphical
> >> interface. It is designed to run as a low priority process in the
> >> background.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best of Luck,
> >>
> >> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> >> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
> >>
> >> "Speedy74" <Speedy74@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:F83E1F70-2DD9-49D0-86CE-18D7BFB61112@microsoft.com...
> >> > hey there
> >> >
> >> > my problem is that defrag will not run when i try to activate it askes
> >> > for
> >> > my promission to run and i giv it, but then nothing happens..
> >> >
> >> > i am running vista home premium
> >> >
> >> > can anyone please help me....
> >>
> >>
>
>